This entry won't be interesting for many of you but it's mainly just to tell the world that it is possible to PXE boot BartPE when it is built from an OEM installation of Windows XP Professional SP3. There are pages saying that it works with SP2 but no one has mentioned SP3. It took me most of the weekend to get it to work but that was mainly ( Read more... )

Behold! The amazing Windows Vista! Marvel as it takes a minute to tell you that it will take 20 minutes to unzip a perfectly ordinary 17MB zip file! Why even consider using Linux when it doesn't have a pretty animation? Who cares if it only takes 8 seconds* to perform the exact same operation ( Read more... )

Phew! At around 4pm today, my hard drive started acting up. It would occasionally pause for about 30 seconds, effectively freezing the system during that time. By the fourth time this happened, I was getting seriously worried so I immediately took a new incremental backup. That went without a hitch and I was able to breathe much easier. It seemed ( Read more... )

kermitbantam and opalfruits came to stay at the weekend. It was lovely. But I'll write more about that when I'm not hunched over the old laptop and cursing the qwerty keyboard layout ( Read more... )

I did it. I really did it. It's only taken me eight years. I just finished Final Fantasy VIII. I bought it on the very day it came out back in 1999 and played most of the way through it in a very short time. Because I was in such a rush to progress through the story, I didn't level up enough and got stuck at the battle with Adel at the beginning of ( Read more... )

Marna asked me yesterday if there was any way she could enter text into the computer by handwriting. Back when I first met him, Richard Gilmore gave me a cheap graphics tablet to play with but I never really got it to work properly. Well last night, I persevered with success. I then installed an amazing little program called CellWriter, which turns ( Read more... )

You can witness some amazing things when everyone else is mindlessly milling around you. Here I am at Victoria Station, bored out of my skull, when what do I see? Someone accidentally drops a one penny coin just next to me. It gets kicked and proceeds to roll in a very wide arc. It narrowly misses countless numbers of feet, breezes through the ( Read more... )

(15:09:56) James: there's something really odd about our street ( Read more... )

There's something immensely satisfying about eating apples from your very own apple tree.

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